We need New York to go green here?

How quaint, all those charming antique windmills we on Cape Cod use to enhance our historic environmental image.

How quaint, all those charming antique windmills we on Cape Cod use to enhance our historic environmental image.

How ironic that NStar is now offering to sell "green power" on Cape Cod that is generated ... drum roll, please ... in New York and Maine!

Meanwhile, back home, efforts by Cape Wind, Eastham and Orleans to generate homegrown wind power are stymied by our fear of change and unwillingness to share in the sacrifices necessary to fuel our ever-increasing gluttony for energy.

The people in Sandwich, Somerset, Salem, Charlestown and Holyoke have been making sacrifices for all of us for years. Every kilowatt generated by wind power is that much less that has to be generated by the "Filthy Five" and the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and brings us that much closer to energy independence. Those plants won't close overnight, but maybe someday our children will see them close.

We have to start somewhere. Isn't it hypocritical that we ask New York and Maine to provide our green power?

To Tom Conrad and Nauset High School, may the force be with you. I hope to see that "higher-powered" windmill someday, but I won't hold my breath (pun intended).